Kaijin Fighter: So I Have to Make Monsters, So What?-Chapter 1547: Vessel Creation

[So...where do you think we're going to be going for this vacation?] Hurricroak asked her follow kaijin. [Somewhere tropical or somewhere cold?]

[Bold of you to assume that we'll be actually going on a trip without something going horribly wrong,] Nepherage sardonically commented. [But if I had to give my two coppers...our Lord seems more likely to just laze around at home. Well, he always makes comments about wanting to just laze around back at the estate.]

[Knowing our collective luck, the Director is more than likely going to end up vacationing on the inside of a wandering ruin,] Razorstella pointed out. [One that's somehow filled with a lost civilization and he's going to be all "hero" mode again.]

[I...doubt it,] Frosttusk rumbled. [He's... probably...going...camping...somewhere...remote

...]

[That's just a recipe for a monster attack,] Springerdermain retorted. [If anything, we're probably going to vacation somewhere on Dozing Salamander. We got natives in the party, they know places.]

[Hot springs for days?] Screamira observed.

[Maybe.]

[I don't think it mattered either way,] Corpse Doll piped up. [Because we're probably going to be fighting something wherever we go.]

[I mean, isn't that our definition of a vacation?] Porcelain Doll pointed out to her sister.

[Yes.]

[Heh. We're like murderous beavers...]

...Now back to the guy in charge...

'Due to the mold, the only type of bodies I can make right now are humanoids. Well, I can technically just freehand them like I did with the kaijin, but something tells me doing that will probably do something unexpected, Zhen Liu thought to himself. 'If I want to do this, I'm going to have to use my actual handicraft skills.'

Thanks to the Rainbowsmith's manual and the whole mess of times that the kaijin has possessed his body, Zhen Liu was actually surprisingly dexterous when it came to moving his hands.

The only issue was that he wasn't entirely sure if these fragments of the divine would be okay with being shoved into purely humanoid bodies. In a lot of the myths that Zhen Liu used to read in a past life, he knew that some gods preferred to have more bestial or monstrous forms.

'Fuck it, asking for forgiveness over permission, I guess.' Zhen Liu shook his head before bringing his attention to the present. 'But just in case, let's start with the guys who definitely had more humanoid forms in their active years. '

This decision meant that Zhen Liu had to postpone crafting Quetzalcoatl's body until the end of this crafting session and that he had to focus on either Huitzilopochtli or Xipe Totec.

'The god of war or the god of medicine...let's do the latter,' Zhen Liu decided. 'On the off chance shit goes sideways early and I'll need medical assistance.'

Using a bit of [Chaos], Zhen Liu moved aside the other two tables full of materials and focused on the one containing the stuff for Xipe Totec's body.

Now that he had to just focus on the one body, he could feel the contradictory power radiating off of the table before him. He already knew that this was going to be a mild pain in the ass to manipulate and merge together.

Thankfully, he had a way to mitigate this innate opposition.

'Blazejudicator. Help me out here.'

[As you wish, Executor!]

Channeling Blazejudicator's power, Zhen Liu summoned three colorful balls of flames that should, theoretically, help to merge all of the materials before him.

The first of these flames was one of the [Flames of Vice], the [Flame of Gluttony].

[Gluttony] and [Life] were two elements that worked in surprising tandem with one another.

In order to eat, one had to live.

In order to live, one had to eat.

It's even been said that the beings with the greatest taste for life are often the ones with the greatest appetites.

As such, these orange flames of hunger were used to first break down the components that were rich in [Life] aether and refine it down into the shape of a gentle-looking stone that radiated an energy that was just as nice. Not only that, but the gem in question even had mild healing properties.

'Huh…my back suddenly feels way lighter.'

The second flame ZHen Liu prepared was the [Flame of Kindness], which was for the [Death]-related items.

An old poem once shared the idea that death was kind, for it was a release of one's stress and one's being and the returning of all that once was back into nature's cycle. It's also often considered a "final kindness" to release someone from the suffering of disease, injury, or pain.

The gentle blue flames of kindness took on a somber air as it broke down the materials before it and created a somewhat sharp stone that radiated the most insidious type of death: a peaceful one that comes suddenly.

'Okay…feels like I'm holding the world's most lethal poison. That's fun.'

And last, but certainly not least, Zhen Liu conjured up his now signature [Ghost Flame] to melt down the Malevolent Gold and other materials needed for the main body.

Undeath, by a terrible stretch of the meaning, could technically be considered a form of rebirth.

True resurrection, complete resurrection, was something that was impossible even in Valresta.

Powerful Aether Saints and the like may have their souls linger after their bodies are destroyed, but that was it.

They no longer had the body they came into this world with. Alternatively, a resurrected body may not have the same soul it once had when it was first brought into this world either.

Even the Gallop Brothers, by and large, were more like a reincarnation than a resurrection.

And a ghost, despite their memories and feelings being very reminiscent of when they were alive and corporeal, may very well be considered their own person.

As such, Zhen Liu understood that a main body, a metallic one infused with the power of something between the stages of life and death, was the right conduit needed to balance the two stones that he had created.

'Okay, so far so good…'

Floating before Zhen Liu was now a giant molten ball of gold, a gentle stone radiating [Life], and a jagged stone that radiated [Death].

And now, he was going to try and use all three in a casting mold that was originally designed for Kaijin. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

As if the universe was sensing his nervousness about this whole creation procedure, the molding cast before him started to quiver and glow as he approached it with the materials in tow.

'Oh, now you start acting up? Fuck it, play it by ear…'

Once Zhen Liu came to this conclusion, he channeled his power into the golden ball of molten metal first before directing it towards the casting mold before him.

'So far so good…wait…why do I smell roasted corn?'

..And now it's time for an outsider's perspective...

'I know they said that Zhen Liu needed privacy when it came to this whole body creation thing, but what does that even entail?' Axer asked himself. 'I have to know!'

Axer had settled in remarkably fast into the Library of Nowhere and its myriad of weird halls, to the point that he was now able to navigate it with the strangest of ease.

It was almost as if the library itself was guiding him.

Regardless, once he heard that Zhen Liu was going to be crafting something himself with all of those materials that he and his friends bought from the Rainbowden auction houses, he just had to know what the final product was going to look like exactly.

Especially since all the materials he gathered were so…weird.

They were contradictory, unstable, or just straight up low quality by most master craftsmen's standards.

But at the same time, the Rainbowsmith was someone who could take low-grade materials and make miracles, and Axer just learned that that guy had the same title as Zhen Liu: Kaijin Lord.

So…maybe there was something to Zhen Liu's choice.

Speculation aside, Axer wouldn't know until he saw for himself what Zhen Liu had planned.

Thankfully, it only took him a few moments to arrive at the room that Zhen Liu had chosen to do his work in private. At least, he hoped it was the right room, given all of the weird energy seeping out of the cracked door like smoke from a bonfire.

'Alright, let's see what makes Zhen Liu such a terrifying presence...oh...holy shit.'

The moment Axer peeked around the door's open crack, he was greeted by the sight of something distinctly human yet inhuman at the same time.

Then again, how else would one describe a clockwork giant fiddling with the forces of creation like they were merely cogs in a machine or threads to a tapestry while crafting a golden body that seemed to borderline on the divine?

'Should...should I be watching this or not? 'Axer asked himself.

As this question ran through his mind, the clockwork giant didn't even pause to look in his direction.

'Oh.'